Court convicts 24 on terrorism-related charges

September 3, 2014

A specialized court in Riyadh today convicted 24 defendants, including an American and a Yemeni, of terrorism-related crimes and ‎sentenced them to between two and 27 years in prison. The defendant were convicted of ‎membership in one of the Kingdom’s most violent terrorist cell. The defendants were convicted of membership in extremists groups in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, travelling or planning to ‎travel abroad to joint terrorist-led war, setting up a terrorist cell to target oil pipelines and oil workers, terror financing, weapons offenses, and rendering assistance to wanted terrorists.